Electronics Australia
June 1987
Volume 49, Number 6
This month's cover
Here's a multi-function IR remote control that's easy to build and easy to install. Build it and press the buttons to control your TV set, CD player or model railway.
Eight channel IR remote control
Up to eight relay channels can be switched with our new infrared remote control, and you can add power on/off, muting and volume control.
10,000 prize from Texas Instruments
Do you need a local area network (LAN) development system. If so, tell us about it. You could win a $10,000 prize from Texas Instruments.
Remote controlled car burglar alarm
This month, we show you how to combine the UHF remote switch featured in January with the ultrasonic alarm described in April. Together, the two make a very effective radio-controlled car burglar alarm.
Features
New-generation airliners - Quieter and packed with electronics
Radar: Its wartime role - Recollections of an RAF instructor
Satellite TV in Australia - a practical guide
Tetia and Tesa - Professional organisations for the electronics technician
Local area networks - What they are and what they do
Win a LAN development system - $10,000 prize from TI
Entertainment electronics
An introduction to HiFi Pt. 14 - FM radio tuners
Compact disc reviews - Janos, Handel, Mozart
Projects and Technical
Multi-function remote control - switch up to eight channels
Remote controlled car alarm - Combines two popular projects
Circuit and design ideas - screecher protection for bonnet and boot
The serviceman - When skies are grey, Sony boy
Low-cost stereo UV meter - build it for the mini mixer
A versatile op amp tester Part 2 - How its used
Understanding colour TV part 5 - The colour decoder - 1
News and Comment
Letter to the editor - for and against the Australia Card
Editorial - Australia at the forefront of superconductivity research
News Highlights - IBM launches new-generation PCs
Forum - Technology: has it gone over the top?
Information centre - answers to reader queries
Departments
Book reviews
EA crossword puzzle
50 and 25 years ago
New products
Marketplace
Coming next month
Notes and Errata
Live Music
Archive
Librivox
Free Audio
Metropolitan Museum
Cleveland
Museum of Art
Internet
Arcade
Console Living Room
Open Library
American
Libraries
TV News
Understanding
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